Bruno Debattista, a 10-year-old from Oxford,
found a fossil that was 300million years old.
Bruno found the item while on a family trip
last summer in Cornwall and hadn’t imagined the importance of it.
But when specialists from the Oxford
University Museum of Natural History looked closer, they found it was an old
horseshoe crab footprint.
The institute’s education officer Chris
Jarvis said: ‘Footprints of this age are incredibly rare and extremely hard to
spot, so we were amazed when Bruno found them.
‘Still more impressive is the fact that Bruno had a hunch
they might be some kind of footprints, even though the specimen had some of our
world expert geologists arguing about it over their microscopes!’
Experts think the footprints were made during
the Carboniferous period.
Young Bruno, who attends Oxford’s Windmill
Primary School, has given the fossil to the museum where thousands of people
will be able to see it every year.
Prepared by: Haneen Skull
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